Web Development and Business
Updates on what I've been up to in my career of business and web development.
2017 was the year I built a team of amazing people. We are small, but incredibly effective. The 7 of us — 5 full time and 2 contractors. We are all focused together on one mission together: improving the state of (professional) education.
We are all working together on Frontend Masters, where 50+ teachers share their experiences and knowledge with tens of thousands of software developers, making an impact on their careers and their life’s path.
The team captured the story of starting Frontend Masters (5 minutes) — enjoy!
Go check out the discussion on Facebook!
Some podcasts appearances I’ve made recently!
JavaScript Jabber: Tech Education and the Business of Frontend Masters — answering a lot of questions about e-learning and telling the history of Frontend Masters.
Know Priorities: Marc Grabanski – I spill lots of solid business tools and tactics. This is the deepest I’ve ever gotten into the business side.
ShopTalk Show: Marc Grabanski – mostly about the Q&A. Discussing markdown, JSON and WordPress script loading.
Online Course Coach: How to create video courses from LIVE online and in-person workshops with Marc Grabanski – centered around the video production side and how to produce and promote online courses.
This is the year I quit consulting. I put all my eggs into one basket in order to be building something lasting which increases its value over time. It was one of the most difficult years for me because for the first half of the year I was consulting while trying to bootstrap the business (two full time jobs). And not like other years where I was only consulting a little bit or working on the education business a little bit — no…this year I was working full on both.
Turning 30 has been interesting. I’ve been a full-time front-end web developer since ’04-05. That’s 10 years! But now honestly although I still do front-end dev I feel like I’m more of a CEO than anything now — that’s a recent development in the last 6-12 months.
